Two artists to display work at ECC

Submitted by Elgin Community College

Artists Summer Zickefoose and Joseph D’Uva are presenting their work during an exhibition that will be held at the Elgin Community College Visual and Performing Arts Center through Saturday, April 14.

The free exhibition will be held in the center’s Safety-Kleen Gallery One at the Spartan Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.

Zickefoose juxtaposes items from her past against the weight of their function. Her projects — ranging from ceramics, sculpture, installation, performance, or video — draw from her farm roots. “Roil” sets the pointed ends of a heavy tiller in a group of porcelain cups and “Turn it Under” hangs a delicate curtain over a row of sharp cultivator shields.

D’Uva addresses the semiotic cues of collective memory in his prints. The graphic quality of his work mimics the character of signs while exploring their ability to express tangential feelings and subconscious archetypes. In “suburbanmigration,” the viewer is exposed to the work’s stereotypical intimations via the familiar motifs of a birdhouse, a white picket fence and a blue sky. Throughout the background, large faded numbers overlap one another suggesting the unresolved formulas upon which such realities are constructed.

ECC also will hold an artists’ reception with Zickefoose and D’Uva from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in Safety-Kleen Gallery One. The reception is free and open to the public.

For more information, call Ed Krantz, gallery curator, at (847) 214-7405 or email to ekrantz@elgin.edu.